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Is than an uphill or downhill task?

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2006-04-23 14:56:39 - Graham Ellis

Someone was telling me a joke about the [nationality]ish Bobsleigh team at the Winter Olympics, who insisted that the track was gritted for them before they would take the Bob down it ....

What a tiny difference there is between a gentle upward slope and a gentle downward slope! On a downhill slope, push out the Bob and it gathers speed and it's own momentum but uphill, it's push, push push all the way. On so many things we do, there's a knack of recognising which way the slope lies and choosing those routes that won't call for constant input to keep them rolling.